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9 Downing Place / Lane

History of 9 Downing Place

1861

Charles Cooper Carter, 25, police constable, b Melbourn

Charles joined the Cambridge police force in 1859. In 1851 he was an agricultural worker in his home village of Melbourn. He later worked as a coachman in islington London where he married Ann Bryant in 1855.

See Mill Road cemetery entry

1871

Charles Carter, police constable

1881

Charles Carter, 46, police constable

1891

Charles Carter, 56, police sergeant

Charles retired from the police force in 1895 and lived at 56 Mawson Road with his second wife Mary Ann Watson.

1901 –

1913

Charles Holland, Chief Constable

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